Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.